From 6c66d4834bf1feb192d6b2b5a29b77cc5e6a34f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Fred K. Schott" <fkschott@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:30:12 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix npm init flag handling in create-astro (#1862)

* fix npm init flag handling

* Update index.ts

* Update real-cats-act.md
---
 .changeset/real-cats-act.md        | 5 +++++
 packages/create-astro/src/index.ts | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .changeset/real-cats-act.md

diff --git a/.changeset/real-cats-act.md b/.changeset/real-cats-act.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..611d314b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/real-cats-act.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'create-astro': patch
+---
+
+Fix issue with v7.x+ versions of npm init, which changed default flag handling
diff --git a/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts b/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts
index 3b61333e0..9f09722d1 100644
--- a/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/create-astro/src/index.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,13 @@ import yargs from 'yargs-parser';
 import { FRAMEWORKS, COUNTER_COMPONENTS } from './frameworks.js';
 import { TEMPLATES } from './templates.js';
 import { createConfig } from './config.js';
-const args = yargs(process.argv);
+
+// NOTE: In the v7.x version of npm, the default behavior of `npm init` was changed
+// to no longer require `--` to pass args and instead pass `--` directly to us. This 
+// broke our arg parser, since `--` is a special kind of flag. Filtering for `--` here 
+// fixes the issue so that create-astro now works on all npm version.
+const cleanArgv = process.argv.filter(arg => arg !== '--')
+const args = yargs(cleanArgv);
 prompts.override(args);
 
 export function mkdirp(dir: string) {